Topics
Paper submissions are encouraged for the following
themes, and their related topics:
- Business ecosystems & emerging collaboration forms
- New value systems and performance measurement
- Innovation and risk management
- Novel healthcare collaborative networks
- Case studies
- Semantic web for collaborative networks
- Content aware networks
- New technologies: MAS, Grid, pervasive computing
- Interoperability
- Proactive service ecosystems
- Pervasive and cloud computing
- Internet of things & new applications
- Networks of machines and sensors
- Collaborative transportation and energy networks
- Professional Virtual Communities
- Social network analysis
- Virtual worlds and new business models
- Active ageing & networks of retired professionals
- Collective intelligence
- Self-organizing systems
- Ambient intelligence & Living Labs
- Affective computing in collaboration
- Network-level emotions and collaboration health
- Network behavior-governance, contracting, trust, conflict resolution
- Economic aspects of collaboration.
Papers may address reference modeling,
roadmapping, infrastructure design, novel supporting ICT
architectures and tools, business models, socio-economic impact
analysis, and education aspects, related to the above areas.
The conference will include technical papers and discussion panels. Proposals for organizing
associated events, namely by project
consortia focused on the area of Collaborative Networks are welcome.